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random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
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the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …
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teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
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Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …
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International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with the standard approach which is to analyse a...
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nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … situation where the public schools essentially were monopolists on all local school markets, the degree of privatization has … school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …
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The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by … especially important in primary- and middle-school years. Spending on school leadership – primarily principals – is also linked …
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Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique … may continue to play a role in school discipline without harming the educational prospects of those sanctioned. …
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